Kjell Asplund, MD and professor emeritus at Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine
has published the book Fuskarna - (My translation of title: The cheaters. On Macchiarini and other's betrayal of science)
It's about several research misconducts, both in Sweden and internationally. He...
Opinion piece by a journalist in the Norwegian financial newspaper Dagens Næringsliv titled: "Will Long-covid become the next fashion diagnosis? The fuzz can be making more people sick, experts claim"
It's paywalled, but here's a google translated quote:
A heated debate is taking place in the...
This was a nice article in the journal of the Norwegian Nurses Organisation.
It's about an out-patient clinic for HIV and ME in a hospital in Kristiansand, Norway, where the patients themselves are part of the decision making concerning how things are run.
Sykepleien: Pasienter med hiv og ME...
Brian Hughes shares an article he wrote in 2019 about the HRA report on the PACE trial. Useful with this reminder of the details, as it was mentioned in Sharpe's Guardian letter today.
The Science Bit: The HRA report does not exonerate the PACE trial, it merely confirms that its Research Ethics...
Inside Sources: Psychiatrist Would Abandon Research on Long COVID and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome by Llewellyn King
- The knowledge that the National Institutes of Health will be spending $1.15 billion on Long COVID was music to the ears of people who suffer from Myalgic Encephalomyelitis, also...
Response from Sharpe in the Guardian:
- George Monbiot has written about post Covid-19 illnesses (Apparently just by talking about it, I’m super-spreading long Covid, 14 April). He referred to slides he had obtained from a talk I was invited to give because of my clinical expertise in this...
Trial by Error by David Tuller: The World According to Sharpe
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Poor Professor Michael Sharpe. The distinguished psychiatrist from Oxford University has a dilemma. His science sucks big-time, and he can’t defend it effectively with standard argumentation. He does not seem to grasp why...
Duration is 2 hours and 18 minutes. Not sure I'll be able to watch the whole thing, but CFS is mentioned already 8 minutes in by Eliane Maxwell - Clinical Adviser at the National Institute for Health Research
ETA: At 50 minutes the Italian researcher Simone Benatt goes through a study he did...
Science How scientists are teasing apart the biology of Long COVID
M.S.: I find in talking to patients, they’re afraid to exercise because they think they have heart damage or lung damage. I tell them that we’re doing a lot of testing. If we don’t find any evidence of serious damage in the...
Full transcript is now available here
These are the parts there Koroshetz mentioned ME:
WALTER KOROSHETZ: I’d say that from our point of view, I think one thing that David said is really important that I’m trying to develop treatments that will help people. This is the time to do it. I think...
VOX Scientists haven't figured out long Covid. Here are 5 of their best hypothesis
Quotes:
Most people who get the coronavirus will fully recover and go right back to their lives. But the latest research suggests that at least 10 percent have long-term symptoms, even after their body has...
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A Life Hidden - Emily at 40: In Celebration and Sorrow
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In the week when Emily would have turned 40, we remember her with love, admiration and grief. A vibrant spirit trapped within a body crippled by suffering, and badly let down by the very system that should have protected...
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